Last Saturday I went to New Hampshire to torture myself with a double mountain-climbing 50K. Because? Because chocolate. After I ran the Boston Marathon in 2017, Joyce and I went up to Manchester, New Hampshire to celebrate her birthday. The B&B owners referred us to a great chocolate shop nearby. This was the Dancing Lion, …
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Taking a Knee (Or Several)
One week ago I was somewhere in Pennsylvania, driving to New York for a trail race, when I flipped on the radio and these were the first words I heard. (Yes, really.) Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?Get up, get out, get out of the door. Okay, who am I to argue with …
Champion of the East?
Most people not living under a rock know by now that our hometown University of Michigan football team won the national championship on Monday. Go Blue! Led by quarterback J.J. McCarthy and running back Blake Corum, they curbstomped the Washington Huskies, 34-13. What not quite so many people also know is that last weekend, I …
Debauched by Two Punk Kids
I ARRIVED BACK AT CAMP ALLAMUCHY exhausted, sore, soaked in sweat, and with a stomachache. I’d endured several thousand feet of elevation gain, kicked approximately 17,000 rocks, and bushwhacked the last two miles up and down ridges, one flag at a time, one very careful step at a time. I was ready to call it …
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